The development of accurate response prediction methods for non-linear offshore structures is addressed in this study. The Markov approach is adopted for this purpose and the solution methods are illustrated through applications to deepwater offshore systems which include an oceanographic buoy, fixed jacked structures, marine riser systems and a guyed offshore platform. Gaussian and non-Gaussian response predictions for single and multiple degree of freedom systems are presented and discussed at length.; The major difficulties associated with Markov methods in dealing with practical systems are the requirements of white noise excitation and the solution of the Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov equation. These problems are addressed through the development of dimensionless shaping filters to produce realistic excitation and the use of moment equations to compute response statistics. The application of these techniques to non-linear systems requires additional closure approximations. The solutions are compared with those from linear spectral analysis, stochastic averaging and time domain simulations.
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